A new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour. <br />Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and bu...(展开全部)

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor" to his denunciation of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Galbraith consistently challenged "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined). He did so as a witty commentator on America's political follies and as a versa...(展开全部)

扬威廉•范德魏特灵（Janwillem van de Wetering），1931年出生于荷兰鹿特丹，后来旅居世界各地，包括南非、日本、英国、哥伦比亚、秘鲁、澳大利亚等国，曾在日本京都大德寺跟随小田雪窓学禅，2008年在美国缅因州去世。他用英语和荷兰语写作，一生著述颇丰，其中包括以两名荷兰警官赫莱普斯特拉与德希尔为主角的系列侦探小说和《空镜》等探讨禅学的非虚构作品，1984年曾以小说《缅因州大屠杀》获得法国颁发的警察文学大奖。

泰奥菲尔·戈蒂耶是法国唯美主义先驱，“为艺术而艺术”的倡导者。1835年发表小说《莫班小姐》，此篇小说序言被公认为唯美主义宣言。他提出“文学可以无视社会道德”的主张，反对文学艺术反映社会问题，认为艺术的价值在于其完美的形式，艺术家任务在于表现形式美。1840年发表诗集《西班牙》，力图用诗来表达造型艺术。代表作《珐琅和雕玉》是他美学观点的具体实践。被奉为艺术的典范。戈蒂耶还撰写小说、游记、戏剧、随笔 、回忆录及大量评论。小说还有《木乃伊传奇》、《弗拉格斯上尉》和短篇小说集《青年法兰西》等。

The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history's greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669). Despite never leaving his native Netherlands, Rembrandt projected his oeuvre past the boundaries of his own experience, producing some of art's most diverse and impactful works across portraiture, biblical...(展开全部)

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His m...(展开全部)